{"id":965,"date":"2016-05-20T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=965"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:29:44","slug":"ben-pranger-my-life-is-not-a-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Ben Pranger &#8211; <em>my life is not a happening<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/04_2008\/Improv07Mix.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/improv07mix.jpg' alt='my life is not a happening'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/04_2008\/Improv07Mix.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">  my life is not a happening (2007, 17.3MB, 1:31 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really like this genre of physical theatre\/dance\/happening\/what-you-will<br \/>\nput through the video mangler (apparently <b>jitter<\/b> does its stuff here)<br \/>\n&#038; the splendidly named <a href=\"http:\/\/benpranger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Pranger<\/a> &#038; his accomplices<br \/>\ncarry it off rather nicely.<br \/>\nI gather this piece arose out of some workshops in 2007.<br \/>\nI love the excitement of that sort of voyage of discovery; there&#8217;s a kind<br \/>\nof frontier feel to it which is really captured here.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s also a philosopher&#8217;s stone job &#8211; out of apparently prosaic fragments<br \/>\ncomes forth a small kind of magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my life is not a happening (2007, 17.3MB, 1:31 min) I really like this genre of physical theatre\/dance\/happening\/what-you-will put through the video mangler (apparently jitter does its stuff here) &#038; the splendidly named Ben Pranger &#038; his accomplices carry it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33,40,14,55,51,29,56,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-conceptual","category-dance","category-experimental","category-happening","category-installation","category-performance","category-theatre","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11668,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/11668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}